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The guy who works on my guitars fixes and modifies a lot of expensive Martins, Taylors and other such acoustics, so he keeps fossil ivory around. When I took my early 1990s Gibson Flying V to him to change the tuners (I play slide on it, using 13-60 gauge strings and the old tuners gave out), he also installed a mastodon tusk nut, similar to what you are describing. It really helps the open strings to ring out nicely and has been on there a good while. I was there when he was making the nut--sure made a weird smell on his drum sander... dave micdave@hiwaay.net Interesting! Small hollow-body guitars are nice. I have played the Ibanez Georg Benson model a lot and think it's awesome. This was an old post of Kris' pen that bounced back into the loop - will you post a follow up? How does the Little Mammoth do now when it's finally out there making noise in your hands? Per >> http://www.krispenhartung.com/mini-jazz-guitar/index.htm >> >> An excerpt that really makes this guitar special.... >> >> "The story behind this nut is just amazing and mind-blowing. A friend of >> Bobby's from Alaska sent him a good size chunk of Woolly Mammoth tusk, which >> you can see below. Just to jog your memory, mammoths went extinct >roughly >> 10,000 years ago. Hence, the ivory nut on this guitar is an actual artifact! >> I was born in Alaska, and because of this, the size of the guitar, and its >> "big guitar sized" tone reported by Bobby, I named the guitar the "The >> Little Mammoth."" >> >> Kris